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Christine Aumayr-Pintar

Research Manager
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Network of European Observatories, working conditions, industrial relations, social dialogue

Christine Aumayr-Pintar is a research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound. She manages the quarterly reporting from the European Observatory of Working Life (EurWORK) and its associated products, in cooperation with Eurofound’s European network of European correspondents. She also works in the areas of pay and industrial relations and contributes to sectoral representativeness studies. Before joining Eurofound in 2009, she worked as a researcher in labour markets and regional economics at Joanneum Research, Austria. She studied economics in Graz, Vienna and Jönköping and holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Economics.

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Nominal collectively agreed pay increases remained limited in the majority of EU Member States in 2013. However, because of lower inflation rates, employees in a number of European countries saw the purchasing power of their wages increase, reflecting a change from the post-crisis trend that had been observed since 2011. Eurofound’s annual update on pay is out.

The global economic and financial crisis brought to an end an era of relative calm with regards to collective industrial action, and the highest incidence of industrial action was not surprisingly found in countries worst hit by the crisis. Wednesday 18 February is the international day of action in defence of the right to strike, initiated by the International Trade Union Confederation ITUC.

Friday 3 November is European Equal Pay Day. In the following blog piece Christine Aumayr-Pintar looks at the issue of pay inequality, contending that far from being a fair weather issue, addressing pay gaps should be an ongoing priority for Europe.